NNAMDI KANU COURT CASE!!! AS PRESIDENCY SAYS
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO SENATOR ABARIBE, OTHERS IF NNAMDI KANU FAILS TO APPEAR IN
COURT...SEE

Christian Rowland writing for ODOGWU MEDIA... The Presidency has said sureties for leader of the Indigenous People
of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu risk imprisonment if he fails to appear in
court on adjourned date.

Following a ruling by the Federal High Court in Abuja granting Kanu
bail on April 25, Senator representing Abia South Senatorial District,
Enyinnaya Abaribe, signed the bond for release of the IPOB leader.

With his next court hearing coming up in October, the IPOB leader has not been heard from or seen after a combined team of security operatives invaded his house in Umuahia, the Abia State capital on September 14.

Commenting on the effect of Kanu’s failure to appear in court,
President Muhammadu Buhari’s Special Assistant on Prosecution, Okoi
Obono-Obla said the court could issue a warrant of arrest for the IPOB
leader.

Speaking with Sunday Telegraph, Obono-Obla said, “The Federal
Government has already filed a motion to set aside the bail of Kanu.“Following the military exercise carried out in Umuahia, Abia State
and the subsequent proscription of IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu has not been seen
and may have gone underground.

“So it is not likely that he will appear in court on the next
adjourned day for fear of being arrested by the police or security
agencies. Kanu had sureties that entered into recognizance or signed
bail bonds as ordered by the court that led to his release.

“What is a recognizance? In law, recognizance is a security entered
into before a court with a condition to perform some act required by
law; on failure to perform that act a sum is forfeited.

“The position of the law as provided under Section 173 (1) of the
Administration of Criminal Justice Act, 2015, is that a defendant whom
recognizance was entered on his behalf and who is subsequently released
on bail is bound to appear before the court at every time and place to
which during the course of the proceedings, the hearing may from time to
time be adjourned.

“The court also may issue a warrant of arrest where a defendant
(Kanu) bound by a recognizance or bond fails to appear before a court or
police station. It follows that if Kanu fails to appear before the
Federal High Court on the next adjourned date, the Judge will likely
order a warrant for his arrest.

“The implication of the failure of Kanu to appear in court on the
next adjourned date on those who stood sureties for his recognizance is
that his recognizance shall be forfeited.
“The court shall order his bond entered by his sureties to pay the
penalty or to show sufficient cause why the penalty should not be paid.

“It follows that Kanu’s three sureties will be ordered to pay N100
million each. Where sufficient cause is not shown by the sureties or the
persons bound and the penalty is not paid, the court may recover the
penalty from the person bound or from his estate if he is dead, in the
manner laid down in the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, 2015 for
the recovery of fine.

“However, where the penalty is not paid and cannot be recovered in
the manner laid down by the law, the person bound shall be liable to
imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months.”